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wildoliver
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Old school newbie, East Yorkshire.
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April 22, 2014, 05:29 PM »
Hi guys,
Found this site by random to be honest, back in the day I had a couple of diamond backs and a Scorpion, all pretty mundane stuff by the standards of this site, but I had a friend who spent far too much of his pocket money on Haro and S+M frames, always put mine to shame!
Now of course I'm in my 30s, a lot less fit and when I do get out on a bike it tends to be a road bike, but I still have a soft spot for BMXs and look wistfully after them as I see the local kids bunny hopping off kerbs, god I miss those days of no worries!
I do a lot of bike restos as I run a business restoring classic cars alongside my sensible day job, it used to be my main income but I decided to take the reliable money rather then the sporadic self employed income of the classics, can't leave it behind though and restore 3-4 cars a year, inbetween I do a couple of bike builds either keeping them for myself or selling them on, I fell really lucky last year and found a new old stock Raleigh Pro race, my childhood race bike, absolutely awesome to see it again, my next mission is to find a scorpion, so I will be watching the classifieds very closely! I had a lovely (heavy as anything but I loved it) Scorpion in white with the twin top tubes, one piece crank, spoked wheels with black rims, that frame took some hammer over the years, I ended up fitting a 5 speed rear block and mech and it stayed on for years, to be honest it transformed the bike, it was heavy anyway so a bit extra weight didn't matter, but made riding the bike pleasurable I did hundreds of miles on it as a teenager. Once I extended the seatpost too far and coming down after a jump it broke the seat tube top off, a very uncomfortable ride home with no saddle to learn how to braize with my dad watching over me and it was good as new though.
Happy days!
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That Swan Guy
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April 22, 2014, 05:39 PM »
Where in East Yorkshire?
Lots of us from South of the River
Cleethorpes Old School Ride July 12th, get it in your diary. Over 120 Old School bikes
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wildoliver
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April 22, 2014, 05:57 PM »
Oh excellent that sounds fun, not far either, currently live in Driffield, but used to live in a village called Skipsea, hence the gears on bmx I had to ride everywhere, used to ride across the cliffs and beach to Bridlington on summer hols every day and ride round there.
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That Swan Guy
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http://www.radbmx.co.uk/forum/index.php/topic,169889.0.html
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wildoliver
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April 22, 2014, 06:08 PM »
Brilliant thanks!
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BMX1973
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April 22, 2014, 08:08 PM »
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Get some pics up of your Raleigh.
Wouldnt mind seeing a few old car pics also. Can do a thread in non bmx.
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gary4130
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welcome mate ,i live up the road in sunny bridlington
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wildoliver
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April 29, 2014, 06:18 PM »
Thanks guys, I'll get some pics up when I get chance, probably won't be in a hurry to be honest!
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Hurricane1
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Hello and welcome mate
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Welcome to Rad
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Welcome.. Enjoy the site
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